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Obama: Romney "twisting my words" over small business remark
Reuters ^ | July 24, 2012 | Alister Bull

Posted on 07/24/2012 6:33:00 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama accused Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday of misrepresenting a comment he made about small business owners that the former Massachusetts governor's campaign has pounced upon as a sign the Democratic incumbent is anti-business.

Romney's campaign seized on Obama's comment that "if you own a business, you didn't build that," to portray the president as unsympathetic to small businesses that help boost the U.S. economy.

Obama's point was that successful business owners have had the public's help at some point in their lives through public education, roads or other government-funded projects that created an environment for businesses to bloom.

"It wasn't a gaffe," Romney said at a trucking company just outside of Boston last week. "It was instead his ideology."

On Tuesday Obama's campaign released an ad rejecting Romney's interpretation of the remarks, and at a campaign event in Oregon, the president addressed the issue directly.

"He's been twisting my words around to suggest that I don't value small business," Obama said of his Republican opponent.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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KEYWORDS: obama; romney; smallbusiness
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1 posted on 07/24/2012 6:33:08 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I hate it when they take your actual words and repeat them too Commie Scumbag. We understand completely comrade.


2 posted on 07/24/2012 6:36:28 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (Mitt better grow a pair or this thing will be over soon.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Twisting words? No, just repeating them.

After all, nobody can create a profitable business and be successful without government (read socialism) “help”.


3 posted on 07/24/2012 6:38:35 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The Pussy can dish it out but can't take it.....


4 posted on 07/24/2012 6:39:36 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: EagleUSA

Barack hasn’t yet come up with a better explanation for what he said. If it was a grammatical gaffe, it was Freudian.


5 posted on 07/24/2012 6:39:59 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“I’m struck by people who think they’re so smart... they work harder....”

There’s the context .. an in-your-face, trash talking taunt.


6 posted on 07/24/2012 6:40:55 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How can Obama say his words were “taken out of context” when it only got worse once they played the entire speech?


7 posted on 07/24/2012 6:42:18 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady ("When injustice becomes law, then resistance becomes duty." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: JohnD9207

You can bet now the “Teleprompter-in-chief” isn’t gonna go off of script!!!...Good job Valerie!...U must be getting worn thin....


8 posted on 07/24/2012 6:42:25 PM PDT by M-cubed
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It’s a lot more than just this particular speech. Obama has revealed his marxist views on many occasions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qmj4trja7w&feature=related


9 posted on 07/24/2012 6:44:29 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
obama is a topical delusion.


10 posted on 07/24/2012 6:45:21 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I think this is where Richard Pryor would be asking “who are you gonna believe,me...or your lying ears?”
11 posted on 07/24/2012 6:46:30 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Poor Barack.If He's Reelected,Think Of The Mess He'll Inherit!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
President Obie needs to replace his campaign bus with a...

wait for it...

Waaaaaaambulance!!!

12 posted on 07/24/2012 6:46:30 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Too many thinking Freepers have left the building...)
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To: gusopol3

I’m struck that someone so stupid is POTUS.


13 posted on 07/24/2012 6:48:26 PM PDT by Wright Wing
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obama does not understand from where the basis of government arose. Taxpayers fund business. Private income, paid by private sector businesspeople generates the money that makes the government works. He just doesn’t get it.


14 posted on 07/24/2012 6:49:18 PM PDT by untwist
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To: M-cubed

She never gets tired. She was taught well by her commie dad. With Valorie you have to ask, what happened to all that cash Obama handed you for that slum rehab that never happened? She is pure evil.


15 posted on 07/24/2012 6:51:04 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (Mitt better grow a pair or this thing will be over soon.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Does this mean George Bush is now off the hook for Obama’s failures?


16 posted on 07/24/2012 6:51:11 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: Free ThinkerNY

LOL

Romney stuck it to Obama even further when he said “the context is worse than the quote”.


17 posted on 07/24/2012 6:54:09 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Even taken at un-face value, that is, taking “what he meant”, it is STILL dead wrong, it STILL shows his disdain for real achievers. It is still a LIE, because he makes it sounds as if Business makers don’t pay for roads and infrastructure, when the truth is, THEY PAY FOR MOST of it, in wages and taxes. This was Obama’s Freudian Slip, down he shall go...


18 posted on 07/24/2012 6:55:10 PM PDT by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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To: Iron Munro

I hope that’s a model for his Presidential painting. It’s the hallmark of his presidency.

1. It wasn’t my fault
2. It was his fault
3. It was the fault of Wall Street, Banks, Lending Institutions, employers, the rich, corporations, anyone with a pulse whose last name wasn’t Obama...
4. If you achieved, you deserve no credit

3.5 years and counting, this infant STILL has no plan for getting this nation back on track, and a myriad of plans for destroying it.

Adios Heffe...


19 posted on 07/24/2012 6:57:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Remove all Democrats from the Republican party, and we won't have much Left, just a lot of Right.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

FBHO


20 posted on 07/24/2012 6:58:07 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (This Message Contains Privileged Attorney-Client Communications)
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